VANDERBILT CHAPTER 
CATALOGUE 




Phi Beta Kappa 



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CATALOGUE 



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VANDERBILT CHAPTER 




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Issued every five years. (By-Laws, Article V.) 



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B. H. STIEF JEWELRY CO., OFFICIAL MANUFACTURERS OF 
THE $BK KEYS FOR THE VANDERBILT CHAPTER. 

The following recommendation was adopted by the National Council 
September 12, T901 : 

"That the Council instruct the officers of the United Chapters to request 
all jewelers known to be engaged in the manufacture of college badges not 
to deliver a Phi Beta Kappa badge to any person, except upon an order 
lountersigned by an officer of a Chapter." 



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GRADUATE OFFICERS OF THE VANDERBILT 

CHAPTER. 



President. 

Prof. Herbert Cushing Tolman, Ph.D., D.D. $ B K 
(Yale). 

Vice Presidents. 

Prof. William James Vaughn, LL.D. 3> B K (University 
of Alabama). 

Bishop Robert Kennon Hargrove, D.D. <£> B K (Univer- 
sity of Alabama). 

Chancellor James Hampton Kirkland, Ph.D., LL.D. 

Corresponding Secretary. 
Prof. Albert Hiram Vance, Ph.D. $ B K (Hamilton). 

Recording Secretary. 
Prof. John Thomas McGill, Ph.D. 

Treasurer. 
Robert Leathan Lund, M.S. 



UNDERGRADUATE OFFICERS FROM THE 
CLASS OF 1902. 



President. 
Gilbert Campbell Scoggin. 

Secretary. 
Daisy May Hemphill. 

Assistant Treasurer. 
Martha Murfree Maney. 



HISTORY OF THE ORGANIZATION OF THE 
VANDERBILT CHAPTER. 

A charter of the historic honor society, Phi Beta Kappa, 
was voted to Vanderbilt University by the Triennial Council 
which met at Saratoga, N. Y., September 12, 1901. The 
history of the movement toward this end, as well as a brief 
outline of the object and regulations of the ancient Society, 
cannot fail to be of interest. 

Alpha Theta Phi. 

The formation of the Alpha Theta Phi Society was de- 
scribed in the Hustler of the date December, 1894, and is 
here reprinted: 

A long-felt want at Vanderbilt has at last been supplied by the 
organization of a Senior society upon a basis of scholarship alone. 
This was consummated last week by the receipt of a charter fran- 
chising the Beta Chapter of the Alpha Theta Phi. 

The movement was set on foot about Christmas by a few mem- 
bers of the Senior Class, whose object was to obtain a charter from 
Phi Beta Kappa, the Society of this character of national reputa- 
tion, and the oldest of all college fraternities. Dr. H. C. Tolman, 
who is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, was visited and the project 
laid before him. He was most heartily in favor of the movement, 
and to his enthusiastic assistance is due the speedy and satisfactory 
conclusion above announced. 

In fact, Dr. Tolman had organized a local society at the Uni- 
versity of North Carolina last year, modeled closely after Phi 
Beta Kappa, its chief features being nonsecrecy and the attain- 
ment of a certain scholarship as sole condition of admission. The 
objects of the organization were to elevate the standard of scholar- 
ship in the University, and, incidentally, to obtain a charter from 
Phi Beta Kappa. The society took the name of Alpha Theta Phi, 
and adopted a gold triangle, suitably engraved, worn as a watch 
charm, for its badge. Several applications for charters of this so- 

(5) 



6 Vanderbilt Chapter. 

ciety were received from various Southern colleges, but it was de- 
cided that promiscuous extension would injure their chances for the 
wished-for charter, so none were granted. 

Vanderbilt may be congratulated, however, that her standard 
of scholarship is recognized as such that, when an application for a 
charter was made through Dr. Tolman, it was gladly granted. Its 
receipt last week completed the organization of the Beta Chapter. 
It is not probable, for reasons above given, that any more chapters 
will be formed ; and it is hoped, in spite of the well-known con- 
servatism of Phi Beta Kappa, that, with the help of the members 
of that Society in the Faculties of the two institutions, charters 
will be procured within a few years at most. 

According to the constitution of Alpha Theta Phi, each student 
has two opportunities to gain admission : if his average for the first 
two and one-half years of his course qualifies him for admission, 
he becomes a member ; if, not. making quite the required grade in 
that time, his work during the remainder of his course brings his 
scholarship to the required point, he is initiated after his final Sen- 
ior examination. 

We cite a few extracts from the Constitution of the So- 
ciety : 

Object. — The object of the Society is to stimulate and increase 
a desire for sound scholarship. 

Eligibility. — All students are eligible to membership who have 
attained an average grade of at least 86 per cent during the first two 
and one-half years in college, or during the entire four years. 

Time of Election. — There shall be two periods of election. The 
first shall take place after the intermediate examination of Junior 
year ; the second, after the final examination of Senior year. 

Badge. — The badge of the Society shall be the Greek letter 
"Delta," or an equilateral triangle with two sides broad and one 
narrow. The triangular shape signifies completeness, and sug- 
gests molding character into symmetry. On the lower broad side 
shall be inscribed the Greek characters "Alpha Theta Phi," which 
are the initial letters of the words 'AA.^0eia ®v/xov <$>oiss ("Truth the 
Light of the Mind "). On the oblique broad side shall be inscribed 
"Vanderbilt University ; " on the lower broad side shall beinscribed 
the Latin motto " Veritas Animi Lux." On the reverse oblique 
side shall be inscribed the name of the member. 



Phi Beta Kappa. 7 

A complete list of members of Alpha Theta Phi, since the 
Chapter's establishment at Vanderbilt, is given below: 

Class of 1895. 

R. L. Lund, Ben Childers, 

C. P. Williams, J. Y. Bayliss, 

M. C. Ketchum, H. J. Livingston, 

W. K. Matthews, Miss Gertrude Jones. 

Class of 1896 . 

W. H. Johnson, J. W. Hanner, 

E. R. Smith, Campbell Bonner, 

L. J. Loventhal, C. R. Baskervill, 

Cummins Ratcliffe, T. H. Brewer, 

C. E. Dunbar, H. F. Crenshaw, 

E. M. Rankin, Miss Mabelle Flippin, 

Miss Jean Courtney, Miss Minnie E. Keiser. 

Class of 1897. 
S. H. Werlein, W. D. Strayhorn, 

C. E. Hawkins, G. J. Nunn. 

Class of 1898. 

J. M. Williams, Oscar Teague. 

Miss Marion Kirkland, 

Class of 1899. 

W. M. Patterson, H. J. Daily, 

W. F. Bradshaw, W. B. Long, 

W. J. Howard, W. M. Bush. 

Class of 1900. 
John Bell Tansil. 

Class of 1 90 1. 

Thomas Motlow, J. G. Winston. 

Herbert Gannaway, 

Class of 1902. 

G. C. Scoggin, George B. Baskervill, 

Miss Daisy Hemphill, Miss Martha M. Maney. 

Miss Amelia McT. Baskervill, 



8 Vanderbilt Chapter. 

Application for a $ b K Charter. 

After seven years of existence at Vanderbilt, during which 
time it was clearly proved that the permanency of a scholar- 
ship society was assured, the following letter was sent to the 
leading colleges of the country : 

Vanderbilt University, Jan. i, 1901. 

My Dear Prof. : I write to ask the indorsement of the 

Chapter of for the establishment of the Phi Beta Kappa Soci- 
ety at Vanderbilt University. For six years there has existed a 
scholastic society (Alpha Theta Phi), modeled in every respect 
after Phi Beta Kappa, eligibility being determined solely by high 
standing. . . . As our application, with indorsements, must be 
in the hands of the Senate at least six months before the meeting 
of the National Council next September, I ask that your Chapter 
take as speedy action as possible. H. C. Tolman, 

Phi Beta Kafpa {Tale). 

We quote from the provision of the Constitution of Phi 
Beta Kappa respecting new charters: "VI. Application for 
charters shall, in all cases, be made to the Senate at least 
six months before the meeting of the National Council ; the 
Senate shall at once notify all the Chapters of such appli- 
cations, and such applications shall be reported to the Na- 
tional Council, with the recommendation of the Senate, at 
the next meeting of the Council, and shall be passed upon 
by the Council, which shall have exclusive power to grant 
charters. But no charters shall be issued without trie con- 
sent of delegations representing a majority of the Chapters. " 
Furthermore, the By-Laws require that all applications for 
future Chapters shall have the indorsement of at least five 
existing Chapters prior to presentation to the Senate. 

The replies to the letter cited above were cordial, and in 
nearly every case favorable. Several of the colleges stated 
that they could not take action until the June meeting of their 
Chapter, which date would be too late to meet the require- 
ments of the Senate. Indorsements were received from: 



Phi Beta Kappa. 9 

Boston University, Rutgers College, 

University of California, Swarthmore College, 

Colgate University, Syracuse University, 

Hobart College, Wabash College, 

State University of Iowa, Wesleyan University, 

University of Kansas, University of Wisconsin, 

University of Nebraska, Yale University. 

Vanderbilt's application, which is cited below, was for- 
warded in the early part of February, together with a copy 
of the regulations for eligibility which we should adopt. 
These regulations are in accord with what has been the spirit 
of Phi Beta Kappa since its foundation. 

To the Senate, Phi Beta Kappa. 

Gentlemen: Vanderbilt University has the honor to make ap- 
plication, through you, to the National Council for the establish- 
ment of a Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at this institution. 

There has existed here for several years a scholastic society, 
eligibility to which is conditioned on attaining at least an average 
grade of eighty-six per cent for the first two years and a half of the 
college course. The society has received application for its exten- 
sion, but such application has been refused, since from its incep- 
tion its sole purpose has been to work toward obtaining a charter 
of Phi Beta Kappa by showing that the standard of Phi Beta 
Kappa could be securely maintained. In case a charter of Phi Beta 
Kappa be granted to Vanderbilt University, our regulations re- 
garding membership eligibility would be as follows : 

(1) Members will be elected solely from the Academic Depart- 
ment, where Latin and Greek, or Latin and a modern language, 
are required. 

(2) The scholastic standard for eligibility will be eighty-six per 
cent, which, according to our system of marking, will restrict mem- 
bership to one-tenth of each class. 

(3) The time of election will be at the end of the Junior year. 
Another opportunity for election will be afforded at the end of the 



io Vanderbilt Chapter. 

Senior year, in case the record of the last year has raised the student's 
average grade for his entire four years to the required standard. 
(4) No person will be elected to honorary membership. 

Herbert Gushing Tolman, $BK (Yale), 

Professor of Greek, Vanderbilt University ; 

Hiram Albert Vance, $BK (Hamilton), 

Professor of the English Language, University of Nashville; 

James Hampton Kirkland, 

Chancellor of Vanderbilt University. 

On March 5, 1901, a letter was received from Prof. E. B. 
Parsons, Williams College, Secretary of the United Chap- 
ters, which is given in full: 

Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., ) 
March 2, 1901. ) 

My Dear Prof. Tolman : It gives me pleasure to say that to- 
day, by unanimous vote of the Senate, your University was rec- 
ommended to the National Council for a charter of Phi Beta 
Kappa. The Council will meet at Saratoga, N. Y., September 
12, 1901. 

With salutations and congratulations to yourself and your Fac- 
ulty, cordially yours, E. B. Parsons, 

Secretary Phi Beta Kappa. 

Next came the announcement that the National Coun- 
cil, at its triennial meeting, had voted to receive Vanderbilt 
into the old and honored brotherhood of Phi Beta Kappa, 
a brotherhood of scholars which numbers ten thousand 
members. The official notification authorizing the estab- 
lishment of a chapter at Vanderbilt is dated October 23, 
1901. 

Herbert Cushing Tolman and Hiram Albert Vance. 
Dear Brothers in Phi Beta Kafpa : 

I take pleasure in forwarding to you by this mail, in registered 
package, the Charter for which you petitioned, and which the Na- 
tional Council of the United Chapters, in triennial session at Sar- 
atoga Springs, N. Y., on September 12 last, duly granted. A 
copy of the Constitution and By-Laws of the United Chapters 
and a model Constitution for such new Chapter of the form pre- 
scribed by the National Council, are also included. With these 



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documents you are fully authorized and empowered to institute 
the new Chapter in such manner as may commend itself to you. 

When you have completed the organization of the new Chapter 
you will, I trust, transmit to me an account of the proceedings of 
your foundation meeting, a list of the members initiated, and the 
officers chosen, and such other information as you may deem of 
general interest to the fraternity. 

The confident hope and trust of the United Chapters is hereby 
expressed that this Chapter, under your fostering care and wise 
guidance, will in its membership maintain that high standard of 
character and attainment which has characterized the membership 
of the Society in a long past, and which has rendered honorable 
everywhere the appellation of Phi Beta Kappa. 

Sincerely and fraternally yours, Oscar M. Voorhees, 

Secretary of the United Chapters. 

Phi Beta Kappa. 

Alphas of Alabama and Mississippi existed in early days, 
but they have long been defunct and their history unwritten. 

A list of existing Chapters up to the year 1901, arranged in 
chronological order, is as follows: 

William and Mary College, Va., December 5, 1776; Yale 
University, 1780; Harvard University, 1780; Dartmouth, 
1787; Union University, 181 7; Bowdoin College, 1824; 
Brown University, 1830; Trinity College, 1845; Wesleyan 
University, 1845; Western Reserve, 1847; University of 
Vermont, 1848; Amherst, 1853; Kenyon, 1858; New York 
University, 1858; Marietta College, i860; Williams College, 
1864; College of the City of New York, 1867; Columbia 
University, 1868; Middlebury College, 1868; Hamilton Col- 
lege, 1869; Rutgers College, 1869; Hobart College, 1871; 
Colgate Univershy, 1875 '•> Cornell University, 1882; Roches- 
ter University, 1886; Lehigh University, 1886; Dickinson 
College, 1886; Lafayette College, 1889; DePauw Universi- 
ty, 1889; Northwestern University, 1889; Tufts College, 
1892; University of Pennsylvania, 1892; University of Min- 
nesota, 1892; Swarthmore College, 1895; Johns Hopkins 
University, 1895 ; Syracuse University, 1895 ; Colby Univer- 
sity, 1895; University of Iowa, 1895; University of Nebras- 



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ka, 1895; Boston University, 1898; University of Chicago, 
1898; University of California, 1898; Haverford College, 
1898; University of Cincinnati, 1898; Princeton University, 
1898; Wabash College, 1898; St. Lawrence University, 
1898; Vassar College, 1898; University of Wisconsin, 1898; 
Allegheny College, 1901 ; University of Missouri, 1901 ; 
Vanderbilt University, 1901. 

A brief list of eminent men who were members of Phi 
Beta Kappa would embrace such names as Chief Justice 
John Marshall, James D. Dana, Jeremiah Day, Elias Loomis, 
W. W. Phelps, Noah Porter, Benjamin Silliman, Theodore 
D wight Woolsey, Charles Francis Adams, John Quincy 
Adams, George Bancroft, Phillips Brooks, Ralph Waldo 
Emerson, Edward Everett, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James 
Russell Lowell, William H. Prescott, Charles Sumner, Ezra 
Abbot, Jacob Abbott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry W. Long- 
fellow, Franklin Pierce, Horace Mann, Rufus Choate, Daniel 
Webster, Chester A. Arthur, William Cullen Bryant, James 
A. Garfield, Mark Hopkins, William Dwight Whitney. 

Notable Phi Beta Kappa orations have been delivered by 
Edward Everett, Emerson, Peabody, Sumner, Beecher, 
Woolse}r, Storrs, Porter, Phillips ; and poems have been re- 
cited by Bryant, Holmes, Emerson, and Longfellow. 

"In the interesting record published by President Tyler," 
says Prof. Parsons in his "Catalogue of the United Chap- 
ters," " are the names and personal sketches of the half hun- 
dred members of the first Phi Beta Kappa. They were men 
who had an active share in the stirring affairs of the Revolu- 
tion, and in camp and legislative hall performed their parts 
in the contest for freedom. Nearly all of the fifty were in 
the Continental army; seventeen were in the State Legisla- 
ture, most of them for several terms; eight were members 
of the convention which ratified the Federal Constitution; 
^sr^ were members of the national House of Representa- 
tives, and two of the national Senate. The State Conven- 
tion of 1788 and the Legislatures of 1783 to 1787 could readily 
hold Phi Beta Kappa meetings, as a considerable number of 
the society were always present. Some of the men became 



Ph i Beta Kaffa . 1 3 

leaders in national affairs: Heath, the first President of the 
Society, was in the Legislature when barely twenty-two, and 
ten years later in Congress ; Archibald Stuart, member of 
both Houses, presidential elector and judge, a leading man 
of the South till his death ; Bickley was Clerk of the Conven- 
tion of 1788, as afterwards he was of Congress; Bushrod 
Washington, the favorite nephew of President Washington, 
and the inheritor of Mount Vernon, was an Associate Justice 
of the United States; Short, the second President of the So- 
ciety, was Secretary of Legation in France when Jefferson 
was the Minister, and afterwards was himself an eminent di- 
plomatist; the names of Cabel and Clements, Fitzhugh and 
Hardy, Mason and Madison and Lee, were well known in 
Virginia affairs. Perhaps the most widely known member of 
the original fifty was John Marshall, whose record as lawyer, 
legislator, and Chief Justice is a part of national story." 

Mr. George Birbeck Hill, in his book " Harvard College, 
by an Oxonian," fitly describes the Phi Beta Kappa Society 
as "the aristocracy in a democratic country," and that is 
what Phi Beta Kappa has ever stood for; not the aristocracy 
of birth or wealth, but the true American aristocracy of 
scholarship and character. Over one hundred years ago 
the Secretary of the Harvard Chapter wrote : "I conceive that 
the institution of the Phi Beta Kappa will have a happy tend- 
ency to destroy prejudices that too frequently subsist between 
different universities, and make them act on a more liberal 
principle, and seek the mutual advantage of the several soci- 
eties with which they may by their institution be connected." 

The <£ B K Key the Badge of the Scholar. 

Admission to the Society is not only a mark of honor 
which the college bestows upon its most worthy sons, but 
it entitles the member to the privileges of that Fraternity of 
Scholars which is coextensive with the United States. Of 
thirteen colleges applying for a charter at the 1901 meeting 
of the National Council, Vanderbilt was one of three which 
were successful. Unless Johns Hopkins be classed as a 
Southern institution, Vanderbilt University became the first 



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college in the South to receive a charter from the United 

Chapters. 

The First Meeting. 

The first meeting of Phi Beta Kappa in Vanderbilt Uni- 
versity was held November 5, 1901. The order of business 
was as follows: (1) Calling to Order; (2) Prayer (Bishop 
Hargrove); (3) Reading of Official Notification of Action 
of National Council; (4) Reading of Charter; (5) Short 
History of the United Chapters; (6) Reading of the Con- 
stitution; (7) Initiation of Members; (8) Adoption of By- 
Laws; (9) Election of Officers. 

The Charter. 

To Herbert Cushing Tolman and Hiram Albert 
Vance, Brethren of the Phi Beta Kappa — Greeting : 

Whereas the National • Council of the United Chapters of 
the Phi Beta Kappa Society has by resolution duly adopted on 
the 1 2th day of September, 1901, decreed the establishment of a 
Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa in connection with Vanderbilt 
University, at Nashville, Tennessee, and has directed the Senate 
by the President and Secretary to issue a charter in the name of 
the National Council : — Now, therefore, by virtue of the afore- 
said act of the Council and the authority delegated to us, we do 
hereby incorporate and establish you and such others as you may 
hereafter elect and associate with yourselves, in conformity to the 
law of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, into a separate and sub- 
ordinate branch of said society to be known and called the Alpha 
Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa in the State of Tennessee ; 
hereby granting unto you and your successors all the powers, 
privileges, and benefits thereunto appertaining, in as full and 
ample a measure as the brethren of the other and existing chap- 
ters enjoy ; at the same time enjoining upon you in the organiza- 
tion and conduct of the new chapter, and as a condition upon 
which this charter is granted, strict compliance with the Constitu- 
tion of the United Chapters and the Model Constitution herewith 
transmitted to you. 

In witness whereof the said Senate has caused the seal of the 
United Chapters of the Phi Beta Kappa to be affixed hereto, 
with the signatures of the President and the Secretary. 

J. A. De Remer, President • 
Oscar M. Voorhees, Secretary. 



Phi Beta Kappa. 15 

The Alpha of Tennessee. 

Drs. Tolman and Vance received into membership of the 
Vanderbilt University Chapter (1) their brethren of Phi 
Beta Kappa at that date connected with the University, to- 
wit: Bishop Robert Kennon Hargrove, $BK (University 
of Alabama), Bishop Eugene Russell Hendrix, <$ B K 
(Wesleyan, Conn.), Professor William James Vaughn, 
$ B K (University of Alabama), Professor Leonidas Chal- 
mers Glenn, <$ B K (Johns Hopkins), Professor Timothy 
Cloran, $BK (Western Reserve), Elliot W. Kirk, 3> B K 
(Wabash). By virtue of the authority delegated to them 
by the Senate, Drs. Tolman and Vance associated with 
themselves in the establishment of the Chapter (2) the Chan- 
cellor of the University, Dr. James Hampton Kirkland, and 
the graduate and student members of that Vanderbilt schol- 
arship society (A © <£) described in the application to the 
Senate. On the initiation of its members into <£ B K, the 
A@$ scholarship society at Vanderbilt ceased to exist. 

As a graduate of Vanderbilt University who attained in 
undergraduate years a grade of high standard, and by vir- 
tue of his graduate work of distinction, John Thomas Mc- 
Gill, '79, Ph.D., was elected to membership under the pro- 
vision of the charter constitution that members may be elect- 
ed "from those graduates of said college whose postgrad- 
uate work entitles them to such honor.' ' 

The members of the Senior class ('02) who had at- 
tained an average grade of 86 per cent during the three 
years of their college course just passed had the unique 
honor of being the first Senior class of Vanderbilt Univer- 
sity to be admitted in their undergraduate days to the priv- 
ileges of Phi Beta Kappa. 

The Public Foundation Meeting. 

The Public Foundation Meeting of the Vanderbilt Chap- 
ter was celebrated in the University Chapel December 5, 
1901, a date which coincided with the one hundred and 
twenty-fifth anniversary of the Society. An elaborate pro- 
gramme was rendered, which is printed in full. 



16 Vanderbilt Chapter, 



ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 
HISTORIC SCHOLARSHIP SOCIETY 

PHI BETA KAPPA 

AND 

. The Public Foundation Meeting of the Vanderbilt Chapter 

PROGRAM 

PRAYER BY THE REVEREND PROFESSOR J. H. STEVENSON,, 
PH.D. 

HYMN : " O GOD. BENEATH THY GUIDING HAND " 

O God, beneath thy guiding hand, 

Our exiled fathers crossed the sea; 
And when they trod the wintry strand, 

With prayer and Psalm they worshiped thee. 
Thou heard'st, well pleased, the song, the prayer. 

Thy blessing came; and still its power 
Shall onward through all ages bear 

The memory of that holy hour. 

Laws, freedom, truth, and faith in God 

Came with those exiles o'er the waves ; 
And where their pilgrim feet have trod, 

The God they trusted guards their graves. I 

And here thy name, O God of love, 

Their children's children shall adore, 
Till these eternal hills remove, 

And spring adorns the earth no more. 

READING OF THE CHARTER FOR THE ALPHA OF TENNES- 
SEE BY HERBERT CUSHING TOLMAN, PH.D., D.D., PHI 
BETA KAPPA, YALE, PROFESSOR OF GREEK, VANDER- 
BILT UNIVERSITY 

MALE CHORUS, FESTIVAL MARCH 

Conductor, Mr. John Ashford Accompanist, Mrs. E. L. Ashford 

Mr. James T. Camp Mr. A. J. Morgan 

Mr. C. L. Chilton Mr. E. K. Odell 

Mr. R. T. E. Cornelius Mr. E. L. Peerman 

Mr. Glenn Flinn Mr. Erskine Reed 

Mr. William Ganderton Prof. Charles W. Starr 

Mr. C. C. Green Mr. Carl F. Stough 

Mr. W. G. Henry Mr. J. Paul Tyler 

Mr. Elliot W. Kirk Mr. F. T. Welburn 

Mr. Robert Lyle Mr. S. K. Welburn 

Mr. Charles S. Martin Mr. Walter Yarbrough 



Phi Beta Kappa. i*j 

PHI BETA KAPPA AT WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE, VIR- 
GINIA, BY WILLIAM ROBERTSON GARRETT, PH.D., PHI 
BETA KAPPA, WILLIAM AND MARY, PROFESSOR OF 
HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE 



THE UNITED CHAPTERS, BY HIRAM ALBERT VANCE, PH.D., 
PHI BETA KAPPA, HAMILTON, PROFESSOR OF THE EN- 
GLISH LANGUAGE, UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE 

TRIO FOR VIOLINS: DEDICATION MUSIC COMPOSED BY 
MESSRS. GUEST AND SMITH FOR THE FOUNDATION 
MEETING OF THE PHI BETA KAPPA AT VANDERBILT 
UNIVERSITY 

[The three violin parts represent the three original Alphas: 
William and Mary, Yale, Harvard] 

Mr. Alfred E. Howell 
Mr. J. Hough Guest 
Mr. George Smith 

PHI BETA KAPPA AT VANDERBILT, BY CHANCELLOR JAMES 
HAMPTON KIRKLAND, PH.D., LL.D., PHI BETA KAPPA, 
VANDERBILT 



MALE CHORUS: HORACE, ODE I. 22 

Integer vitae scelerisque purus 
Non eget Mauris jaculis neque arcu 
Nee venenatis gravida sagittis, 

Fusee, phareta, 
Sive per syrtes, iter aestuosas 
Sive facturus per inhospitalem 
Caucasum vel quae loca fabulosus 

Lambit Hjdaspes. 

Namque me silva lupus in Sabina, 
Dum meam canto Lalagen et ultra 
Terminum curis vagor expeditis, 

Fugit inermem, 
Quale portentum neque militaris 
Daunias latis alit aesculetis, 
Nee Jubae tellus generat, leonum 

Arida nutrix. 

BENEDICTION BY BISHOP O. P. FITZGERALD, D.D. 
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j8 Vanderbilt Chapter. 

Nine American colleges were represented on this occa- 
sion, while the Phi Beta Kappa procession, arrayed in aca- 
demic cap, gown, and hood, numbered nineteen. Among 
the letters of congratulation received two are quoted here, 
the former because it brings cordial fraternal greeting from 
the distant North to our Southern Chapter, the latter because 
it comes from a college of our own State with which Vander- 
bilt every year contends for athletic honors, but which in 
the higher sphere of scholarship and education is of one 
heart and hand with us. 



DEPARTMENT OF 
MODERN GOVERNMENT AND , AMHERST COLLEGE, 

INTERNATIONAL LAW. 



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Amherst, Mass., Dec. 2, 1901, 
Herbert Cushing Tolman, Ph.D., D.D., Nashville, Tenn. 

My Dear Sir : Please accept my thanks for the programme of 
the forthcoming establishment of a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at 
Vanderbilt University. In no way could the one hundred and 
twenty-fifth anniversary be more worthily celebrated. The Beta 
of Massachusetts congratulates the Fraternity on the accession of 
the Alpha of Tennessee, to which it extends its warm fraternal 
greetings and its best wishes. 

Fraternally yours, Edwin A. Grosvenor. 

President of the Beta of Massachusetts 

{University of the South, 
Sewanee, Tenn., December 4, 1901. 

Prof. H. C. Tolman, Ph.D., D.D., Vanderbilt Campus, Nashville, Tenn. 

Dear Sir : I acknowledge with grateful thanks the receipt of 
your most kind invitation to attend the Phi Beta Kappa exercises 
to be held in your University Chapel, and regret that the accumu- 
lation of work incident to our closing year will prevent me from 
being present. Meanwhile pray allow me to congratulate your 
foundation upon the entrance into its life of this noble organiza- 
tion which I hope may sooner or later come to us, and, believe 
me, with renewed expressions of appreciation, 

Sincerely yours, B. J. Ramage. 



EXTRACTS FROM THE ORIGINAL *BK MINUTES 
WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE, 1776-1781. 

On Thursday, the 5th of December, in the year of our Lord 
God one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, and the first of 
the commonwealth, a happy spirit and resolution of attaining the 
important ends of society entering the minds of John Heath, 
Thomas Smith, Richard Booker, Armstead Smith, and John 
Jones, and afterwards seconded by others, prevailed, and was ac- 
cordingly ratified. 

And for the better establishment and sanctitude of our una- 
nimity, a square silver medal was agreed on and instituted, en- 
graved on the one side with S. P., the inititals of the Latin S 

P , and on the other, agreeable to the former, with the Greek 

initials of $ B K, and an index imparting a philosophical design, 
extended to the three stars, a part of the planetary orb, dis- 
tinguished. 





THE SILVER * B K MEDAL OF 1776. 



The " oath of fidelity " reads: 

I, A. B., do swear on the holy Evangelists of Almighty God, 
or otherwise, as calling the Supreme Being to attest this my 
oath, declaring that I will, with all my possible efforts, endeavor 
to prove true, just, and deeply attached to this our growing fra- 
ternity ; in keeping, holding, and preserving all secrets that per- 
tain to my duty, and for the promotion and advancement of its 
internal welfare. 

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20 Vanderbilt Chapter. 

March i, 1777. 

Resolved: 1. That in every design or attempt, whether great 
or small, we ought to invoke the Deity, by some private sacrifice 
or devotion, for a fraternal prosperity^. 

3. That every member, after being properly initiated, shall be 
obliged to furnish himself with a medal, wholly corresponding 
with those of the Fraternity. 

10. That for the encouragement of any new invention of arts 
and sciences, some premium be allowed from the public treasu 
ry. 

11. That six members shall be the fewest sufficient for the 
execution of business. 

ij&. That the President be invested with the prerogative of 
convening the members of this fraternity, when he shall deem it 
expedient. 

22. That no member shall be expelled without the unanimous 
concurrence of the Society. 

23. That every person, after being initiated, pay into the public 
treasury the sum of 6s. 

August 22, 1778. 

Resolved: That, as the price of initiation hitherto paid is inade- 
quate to the purpose, it be augmented to five dollars. 

Ma y 4> *779- 
It being suggested that it might tend to promote the designs 
of this Institution and redound to the honor and advantage there- 
of at the same time, that others more remote or distant will be at- 
tached thereto. 

Resolved: That leave be given to prepare the form or ordi- 
nance of a charter party, to be intrusted with such two or more 
brothers of the $ B K as to a general meeting shall, on due 
application for the same, be thought to merit such a trust ; with 
delegated power in the plan and principles therein laid down, to 
constitute, establish, and initiate a fraternity correspondent to this, 
and that a committee be appointed of Mr. President, Mr. Stuart r 
and Mr. Beckley to prepare a draft of the same and report at next 
meeting. 

June 27, 1779. 

Resolved: That, as the price of initiation hitherto paid is inad- 
equate to the purpose, it be augmented to ten dollars. 







Through the kindness of Hon. John De Witt Warner, from his article ,; $BK the Oldest Greek Letter Fra- 
ternity," in the A K E Quarterly, 1SS7. 

Facsimile of the minutes of the meeting which voted the Yale Chapter of <f> h K, 
later designated the Alpha of Connecticut. In April, 1781, there were initiated Ezra 
Stiles, Jr., Samuel Newell, Reuben Parmelie, Linde Lord. 

Several months after this the Harvard Chapter was organized. 



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July 31, 1779. 

Mr Elijah Parmale is recommended as a worthy member of 
this Society, and on a ballot taken he is unanimously elected and 
initiated in due form. 

December 4, 1779. 

Petition of Mr. Parmelie for a Charter Party to institute a 
branch of this Society at Cambridge, in Massachusetts, granted. 
To be called E7r<rt\ov. 

December 9, 1779. 

Mr. President, leaving the chair, called Mr. Stuart to the same. 
The Clerk being absent, Mr. Brent is appointed pro tempore. 

Whereas this Society is desirous that the <l> B K should be 
extended to each of the United States ; 

Resolved: That a second charter be granted to our brother, 
Mr. Elisha Parmele, for establishing a meeting of the same in the 
college of New Haven, in Connecticut, to be of the same rank, 
to have the same power, and to enjoy the same privileges with 
that which he is empowered to fix in the University of Cam- 
bridge. To be called the ZijTa. 

An adjournment took place. W. Short, President. 

1 78 1. On Saturday, the 6th of January, a meeting of $BK 
was called for the purpose of securing the papers of the Society 
during the confusion of the times, and the present dissolution 
which threatens the University. 

The members who attended were William Short, Daniel C. 
Brent, Spencer Roane, Peyton Short, and Landon Cabell. They, 
thinking it most advisable that the papers should not be removed, 
determined to deliver them sealed into the hands of the College 
Steward, to remain with him until the desirable event of the So- 
ciety's resurrection. And this deposit they make in the sure and 
certain hope that the Fraternity will one day rise to life everlast- 
ing and glory immortal. 

The original records of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and 
brief personal sketches of the first fifty members were edited 
by President Lyon G. Tyler in the William and Mary Col- 
lege Quarterly, April, 1896. 



THE UNITED CHAPTERS. 

The Society of Scholars was brought into closer fellow- 
ship by the movement inaugurated by Harvard in 1881, 
which resulted in the Constitution of the United Chapters* 
The Chapters, arranged by States, are as follows: 

Alpha of Maine (Bowdoin). 
Beta of Maine (Colby). 
Alpha of New Hampshire (Dartmouth). 
Alpha of Vermont (University of Vermont). 
Beta of Vermont (Middlebury). 
Alpha of Massachusetts (Harvard). 
Beta of Massachusetts (Amherst). 
Gamma of Massachusetts (Williams). 
Delta of Massachusetts (Tufts). 
Epsilon of Massachusetts (Boston). 
Alpha of Rhode Island (Brown). 
Alpha of Connecticut (Yale). 
Beta of Connecticut (Trinity). 
Gamma of Connecticut (Wesleyan). 
Alpha of New York (Union) 

Beta of New York (University of City of New York). 
Gamma of New York (College of City of New York). 
Delta of New York (Columbia). 
Epsilon ot New York (Hamilton). 
Zeta of New York (Hobart). 
Eta of New York (Colgate). 
Theta of New York (Cornell). 
Iota of New York (Rochester). 
Kappa of New York (Syracuse). 
Lambda of New York (St. Lawrence). 
Mu of New York (Vassar). 
Alpha of New Jersey (Rutgers). 
Beta of New Jersey (Princeton). 
Alpha of Pennsylvania (Dickinson). 
Beta of Pennsylvania (Lehigh). 
Gamma of Pennsylvania (Lafayette). 
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Delta of Pennsylvania (University of Pennsylvania). 

Epsilon of Pennsylvania (Swarthmore). 

Zeta of Pennsylvania (Haverford). 

Eta of Pennsylvania (Allegheny). 

Alpha of Maryland (Johns Hopkins). 

Alpha of Virginia (William and Mary). 

Alpha of Ohio (Western Reserve). 

Beta of Ohio (Kenyon). 

Gamma of Ohio (Marietta). 

Delta of Ohio (University of Cincinnati). 

Alpha of Indiana (De Pauw). 

Beta of Indiana (Wabash). 

Alpha of Illinois (Northwestern). 

Beta of Illinois (University of Chicago). 

Alpha of Tennessee ( Vanderbilt). 

Alpha of Wisconsin (University of Wisconsin). 

Alpha of Minnesota ( University of Minnesota). 

Alpha of Iowa (University of Iowa). 

Alpha of Missouri (University of Missouri) 

Alpha of Nebraska ( University of Nebraska). 

Alpha of Kansas (University of Kansas). 

Alpha of California ( University of California). 

The General Catalogue of the United Chapters, with personal 
data of the members, is compiled by Prof. E. B. Parsons, Wil- 
liams College. 



CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF THE UNITED 

CHAPTERS. 



CONSTITUTION. 
Article I. 

COMPOSITION OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL. 

The National Council of the Phi Beta Kappa Society shall 
consist of the Senators hereinafter spoken of, and of delegates 
from the several Chapters of the Society. Each Chapter shall be 
entitled to send three delegates, who shall be graduates of at least 
five years' standing and members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, 
but not necessarily of the Chapter by which they are chosen. 

Article II. 

THE SENATI. 

The Senate shall originally consist of twenty Senators, cho9en 
by the delegates at the first session of the National Council, 
from the Society at large. These shall be divided into two class- 
es, whose terms of office shall expire at the adjournment of alter- 
nate regular sessions of the National Council. At every subse- 
quent regular session the places of the outgoing class shall be 
filled by election as follows: On the day preceding the first day 
of each regular session of the National Council the Senate shall 
meet, and shall nominate fifteen candidates in addition to the 
members of the outgoing class for the ten vacant seats, and also 
two candidates for the unexpired term of each Senator who may 
have died or resigned since the last regular session. Other per- 
sons not nominated by the Senate may be presented as candidates 
at the time of the election. Of every ten members whose term 
of office shall expire, one may be elected by the Council Senator 
for life. In every election of Senators a majority of the votes 
cast shall be required to elect, and in such elections the outgoing 
Senators shall have no vote. The Senate may fill vacancies in its 
own body till the next meeting of the National Council. 
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Article III. 

OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL. 

The officers of the National Council shall be a President, a 
Vice President, a Secretary, and a Treasurer, and such others as 
may be found necessary from time to time. The President shall 
be chosen from among the Senators. 

Article IV. 

SESSIONS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE COUNCIL. 

The National Council shall meet every third year at such place 
and time as shall have been determined by the officers of the 
United Chapters, and shall proceed at once to the election first of 
its officers and next of the Senators. The National Council shall 
make such rules as may be found necessary for the carrying out 
of any provision of this Constitution. 

Article V. 

THE SENATE AND ITS FUNCTIONS. 

During the sessions of the National Council the Senate shall 
have no separate existence, but its members shall take their places 
with the delegates as members of the National Council, voting 
with the delegates, as well upon all other matters as upon the 
election of officers and Senators, except as provided in Article II. 
When the National Council is not in session the Senate shall con- 
stitute an independent body, charged with the duty of represent- 
ing the Phi Beta Kappa Society and speaking in its name, and 
exercising, in addition, the functions of a permanent Executive 
Committee of the National Council. It shall hold its meetings at 
such times and places as it shall determine, being first called to- 
gether by that Senator who at the original election of the Senate 
shall have been elected by the largest number of votes. It shall 
recommend candidates for election as Senators. It shall also 
have power to call an extra session of the National Council. It 
shall furthermore prepare and recommend to the consideration 
of the National Council such matters as it may deem proper. It 
shall transmit its lists of candidates and of matters recommended 
for discussion, by the hands of the Secretary, to the presiding offi- 
cers of the National Council, immediately upon its organization 
being completed. It shall also transmit, in the same manner, to 



28 Vanderbilt Chapter. 

the National Council a report of its doings between the sessions 
of the Council. Nothing herein shall be so construed as to dero- 
gate from the right of the National Council to appoint commit- 
tees to sit between sessions, independently of the Senate, and to- 
report at the next session. 

Article VI. 

NEW CHARTERS. 

Applications for charters shall in all cases be made to the Sen- 
ate at least six months before the regular session of the National 
Council ; the Senate shall at once notify all the Chapters of such 
applications, and such applications shall be reported to the Na- 
tional Council, with the recommendation of the Senate, at the next 
meeting of the Council, and shall be passed upon by the Council, 
which shall have exclusive power to grant charters. But no 
charters shall be issued without the consent of delegations rep- 
resenting the majority of the Chapters. 

Article VII. 

BY-LAWS AND RULES OF ORDER. 

The National Council, at any of its sessions, and the Senate, at 
any time, may respectively make such by-laws and rules of order 
as may be thought expedient for their use, provided the same be 
not inconsistent with any of the provisions of this Constitution. 
A quorum of the National Council shall consist of delegates from 
a majority of the Chapters, and not fewer than three Senators ; the 
Senate shall determine the number which shall constitute its quo- 
rum. (The present number is five.) 

Article VIII. 

RIGHTS OF CHAPTERS. 

Nothing contained in this Constitution shall be construed as 
empowering the Senate or the National Council to restrict or 
abridge the rights or privileges now exercised by existing Chap- 
ters, except as expressly provided herein. 

Article IX. 

AMENDMENTS TO THIS CONSTITUTION. 

No change shall be made in this Constitution unless the same 
shall have been proposed at the session of the National Council 



Phi Beta Kappa. 29 

next preceding the session at which the proposed change is voted 
for; and no vote shall be had upon any such proposed change 
except at a stated hour previously ordered by the meeting ; and 
no amendment shall be made without the concurrence of the dele- 
gations of two-thirds of the Chapters represented in the Council. 

Article X. 

ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION. 

This Constitution shall take effect when ratified by fourteen 
Chapters. (Sixteen Chapters ratified it before July, 1883.) 



BY-LAWS. 
I. 

ELECTIONS AND OFFICERS. 

All elections shall be by ballot. The President shall preside 
over the meetings of the Council. In his absence the Vice Pres- 
ident shall perform his duties. When both are absent a President 
pro tern, shall be chosen viva voce. The Secretary shall keep the 
records of the Council, conduct its correspondence, and send to 
the Senate and to each Chapter a certified report of the pro- 
ceedings of each session. The Treasurer shall collect and dis- 
burse all funds of the Council, and report at each session thereof. 
(At the Council of 1892, the Treasurer requested that the finan- 
cial report be submitted to an auditor appointed by the Presi- 
dent after its presentation.) 

II. 

ORDER OF BUSINESS. 

I. Calling the roll. 2. Reading the minutes. 3. Reports of 
officers. 4. Communications from the Senate on nominations. 
5. Election of officers. 6. Election of Senators. 7. Communica- 
tion from the Senate on new Chapters and other matters. 8. 
Miscellaneous business. 

III. 

VOTING. 

In all cases not otherwise provided for by the Constitution, 
each Senator and delegate present shall be entitled to cast one 



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vote. (In establishing new Chapters the Constitution requires a 
vote by delegations, each delegation having one vote.) 

IV. 

ASSESSMENTS. 

Each Chapter shall pay to the Treasurer a triennial assess- 
ment of five dollars. (The Council of 1883 voted that the first 
assessment should be due in 1884, each successive assessment be- 
coming due in periods of three years from that time, 1887, 1890, 
1893, 1896, and so on.) 

V, 

PROCEDURE. 

The proceedings of the Council, in all cases not provided for 
in the Constitution or the by-laws, shall conform to the rules laid 
down in Cushing's Manual 

VI. 

INDORSEMENT OF NEW CHAPTERS. 

All applications for future Chapters shall have the indorse- 
ment of at least five existing Chapters prior to presentation to the 
Senate. 

VII. 

AMENDMENTS. 

These by-laws, or any of them, may be suspended, altered, or 
amended at any meeting of the Council by a two-thirds vote of 
the members present and voting. 



CONSTITUTION OF THE ALPHA OF TENNESSEE. 



[Required by the Charter.] 

I. This Society is one of the coordinate branches of the body 
known as the United Chapters of the Phi Beta Kappa, and shall 
be called the "Alpha Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in 
the State of Tennessee." 

II The object of the Phi Beta Kappa Society is the promotion 
of scholarship and friendship among students and graduates 
of American colleges. 

III. The members of the Chapter shall be elected primarily 
from the best scholars of the graduating classes of the college ; 
secondly, from those graduates of said college whose postgrad- 
uate work entitles them to such honor ; and lastly, from any per- 
son distinguished in letters, science, or education ; provided, how- 
ever, that the selection from each graduating class shall not ex- 
ceed one fourth of the number graduated. But the Chapter may 
make further limitations or restrictions. 

IV. In addition to scholarship, good moral character shall be a 
qualification of membership, and any member who is found to 
have lost this qualification may be expelled from the Society by a 
four-fifths vote of the members present at a regular annual 
meeting of the Society. 

V. This Chapter shall send a delegation to represent it at each 
National Council of the United Chapters, shall contribute its equal 
part to the financial support of the United Chapters, and shall 
conform to the Constitution of the United Chapters and all the 
lawful requirements of the National Council 

VI. This Chapter shall, by the enactment of suitable by-laws, 
provide for its election of officers, the initiation of members, the 
conduct of its meetings, and for such other matters as it may deem 
wise so to regulate. 

BY-LAWS. 
Article I. 

GRADUATE OFFICERS. 

Section i. The graduate officers of the Alpha Chapter of Ten- 
nessee shall be a President, First, Second, Third Vice Presidents, 

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a Corresponding Secretary, and a Treasurer. They shall hold 
office for one year or until their successors have been appointed. 

Sec. 2. The President shall preside at the general meetings of 
the Chapter and on all public occasions. He can issue at his dis- 
cretion calls for meetings. In case of absence, his place shall be 
taken by a Vice President in order of precedence. 

Sec. j. The Corresponding Secretary shall conduct the official 
correspondence. 

Sec. 4. The Recording Secretary shall keep all proceedings of 
the Society, examine the grades of students, notify such as are el- 
igible to membership, and revise each year the list of members. 

Sec. jf. The Treasurer shall have the oversight of all funds of 
the Society, and shall present a report of its financial status at 
least once a year. 

Article II. 

UNDERGRADUATE OFFICERS. 

Sec. 1. The undergraduate officers shall consist of a President, 
a Secretary, and an Assistant Treasurer. The President shall be 
that member of the Senior Class who has attained the highest av- 
erage grade of scholarship during three years of the college course. 
The Secretary and Assistant Treasurer shall be elected by the 
student members. The term of office shall be one year or until 
the successors of these officers have been appointed. 

Sec. 2. In case of absence of any of the officers mentioned 
above, officers pro tern, shall be appointed by viva voce vote of 
those present. 

Sec. 3. The President shall preside over the meetings of the 
student members. 

Sec. 4. The Secretary shall make record of the minutes of all 
student meetings and report the same to the Recording Secretary. 

Sec. J. The Assistant Treasurer shall collect all assessments 
upon the student members and report the same to the Treasurer. 

Article III. 

MEMBERS. 

Sec. 1. Students of the Academic Department of Vanderbilt 
University where Latin and Greek or Latin and a modern language 
are required are eligible to election, provided they have attained for 






Phi Beta Kaffa. 33 

three years in college an average grade of at least 86 per cent (this 
number comprising about 1-10 of every senior class ) 

Sec. 2. The time of election shall be at the end of the Junior 
Year. There shall be a second election at the end of the Senior 
Year of those students whose average grade for the entire four 
years meets the required standard. 

Sec. 3. No one shall be elected to honorary membership 

Sec. 4. Members of other chapters of Phi Beta Kappa may be 
received into the Vanderbilt Chapter on the vote of the members 
present at any regular meeting. 

Sec. 5. The initiation fee shall be five dollars. No member 
elect shall enjoy the privileges of the Society until he has been 
initiated. 

Article IV. 

QUORUM. 

Five members of the Society present at any regular meeting 
shall constitute a quorum. 

Article V. 

CATALOGUE. 

There shall be published once in five years a catalogue of the 
Alpha of Tennessee containing a complete list of graduate officers 
and undergraduate presidents, and all members of the Society from 
the establishment of the Chapter to the date of issue of said cata- 
logue, together with the history of the Chapter's organization and 
its constitution and by-laws. 

Article VI. 

AMENDMENTS. 

The Corresponding Secretary shall inform all members of the 
Chapter of any proposed amendment or suspension of these by- 
laws one month before the meeting at which it is to be presented. 
Non-resident members can send their votes in writing. A two- 
thirds vote is required for amendment ; a unanimous vote, for sus- 
pension- 



PHI BETA KAPPA. 



THE UNITED CHAPTERS. 



Presidents. 

1883-1886 President Charles W. Eliot, LL.D. 

1886-1889 Hon. Matthew Hale, LL.D. 

1 889-1895 Col. Thomas W. Higginson, LL.D. 

1895-1898 Bishop Henry C. Potter, D.D., LL.D. 

1898 Hon. John A. De Remer, LL.D. 

Vice Presidents. 

1883-1886 Hon. Matthew Hale, LL.D. 

1886-1889 Col. Thomas W. Higginson, LL.D. 

1889-1892 Prof. Francis P. Nash, Ph.D., LL.D. 

1892-1895 Prof. Adolph Werner, Ph.D. 

1895-1898 Hon. John A. De Remer, LL.D. 

1898 Prof. James C. Van Benschoten, LL.D. 

Secretaries and Treasurers. 

1883-1889 Prof. Adolph Werner, Ph.D. 

1889-1901 Rev. E. B. Parsons, D.D. 

1901 Rev. Oscar M. Voorhees, M.A. 

Senators. 

1889-1895 President Charles K. Adams, LL.D. 

18S4-1892 President James B. Angell, LL.D. 

1 895-1901 Prof. Simon E. Baldwin, LL.D. 

1892-* Bishop Phillips Brooks, D.D. 

1895 Prof. Henry L. Chapman, D.D. 

1883-1892, 1898 Hon. Joseph H. Choate, LL.D, 

1883-1889 Hon. George W. Curtis, L.H.D., LL.D. 

1883 Hon. John A. De Remer, LL.D. 

1883-* Prof. Theodore W. Dwight, LL.D. 

1883-1886 President Charles W. Eliot, LL.D. 

1 883-1886 Judge Waldridge A. Field, LL.D. 

1883-1895 Rev. Octavius B. Frothingham, D.D. 

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1892-1898 President Merrill E. Gates, L.H.D., LL.D. 

1896-1902 President Daniel C. Gilman, LL.D. 

1883 Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D.D. 

1883-1895 Hon. Matthew Hale, LL D. 

1898 Hon. Theodore E. Hancock, LL.D. 

1892 Prof. Samuel Hart, D.D. 

1883 Col. Thomas W. Higginson, LL.D. 

1883-1889 Judge Oliver W. Holmes, LL.D. 

1895-1901 Bishop J. F. Hurst, D.D. 

1895 Col. William Lamb, LL.D. 

1892 President Seth Low, LL.D. 

1886-* Hon. James Russell Lowell, LL.D. 

1898 Editor Hamilton W. Mabie, L.H.D., LL.D. 

1892 Prof. Francis A. March, L.H.D., LL.D. 

1883 Prof. Benjamin N. Martin, D.D., L.H.D. 

1883-1901 Prof. Francis P. Nash, Ph.D., LL.D. 

1889 Rev. Eben B. Parsons, D.D. 

1886-1898 Bishop Henry C. Potter, D.D., LL.D. 

1901 President Ira Remsen, LL.D. 

1892-1895 Hon. Elihu Root, LL.D. 

1895 Editor Horace E. Scudder, L.H.D. 

1883-1892 Rev. Richard S. Storrs, D.D., LL.D. 

1895 President Charles F. Twing, D.D. 

1898 Prof. James C Van Benschoten, LL.D. 

1901 Rev. Oscar M. Voorhees, M.A. 

1883-* President Francis A. Walker, Ph.D., LL.D. 

1889-1895 President Harrison E. Webster, M.D., LL.D. 

1883 Prof. Adolph Werner, Ph.D. 

1901 Prof. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, LL.D. 

1886-* Prof. William D. Whitney, L.H.D., LL.D. 

1883-* Librarian Justin Winsor, LL.D. 

1883-1892 Hon. Steward L. Woodford. 

1883-1886 Prof. John H. Wright, LL.D. 
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President. 
Herbert Cushing Tolman, Ph.D., D.D. 

Vice Presidents. 

William James Vaughn, LL.D. 
Robert Kennon Hargrove, D.D. 
James Hampton Kirkland, Ph.D., LL.D. 

Corresponding Secretary. 
Albert Hiram Vance, Ph.D. 

Recording Secretary. 
John Thomas McGilLj Ph.D. 

Treasurer. 
Robert Leathan Lund, M.S. 

Undergraduate President. 
Gilbert Campbell Scoggin. 



MEMBERS. 



Charter Members. 



Herbert Gushing Tolman, Nashville, Tenn. 

& B K (Yale); Ph.D. (Yale, 1890); D.D. (University of 
Nashville, 1901); Student at University of Berlin, Germany ; 
Fellow at Yale (1888-91); Assistant Indo-European Lan- 
guages, Yale (1890—91); Instructor in Latin, University of 
Wisconsin (1891-93); Assistant Professor of Sanskrit, Uni- 
versity of Wisconsin (1892-93); Professor of Sanskrit and 
Acting Professor of Greek, University of North Carolina 
(1893-94); Professor of the Greek Language and Literature, 
Vanderbilt University (1894 ). 

Albert Hiram Vance, Nashville, Tenn. 
$BK (Hamilton); Ph.D. (Jena, 1893); Instructor in His- 
tory and Assistant Librarian, Hamilton College (1888-89); 
Student in Germany (1891-93); Professor of the English 
Language, University of Nashville (1889 ). 

Members from the Former Scholarship Society, A © <f>, at 
Vanderbilt University. 

James Hampton Kirkland, Nashville, Tenn. 
Ph.D. (Leipzig, 1885); LL.D. ( University of North Caro- 
lina, 1894); Tutor in Greek, Wofford College (1879-81); 
Assistant Professor of Greek and German, Wofford College 
(1882-83) ; Professor of Latin, Vanderbilt University (1886- 
93) ; Chancellor of Vanderbilt University (1893 ). 

Charles Read Baskervill, '96, Chicago, III. 

M.A. (Vanderbilt University, 1898). 

George Booth Baskervill, '02, Nashville, Tenn. 

John Y. Bayliss, '95, Central America. 

William Francis Bradshaw, '99, Paducah, Ky. 

Campbell Bonner, '96, Nashville, Tenn. 
M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1887); Ph.D. (Harvard, 1900); Fellow 
at Harvard (1899-00) ; Student in Germany (1900-01) ; Pro- 
fessor of Greek, University of Nashville (1901 ). 

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Vanderbilt Chapter. 



Russellville, Ky. 
Birmingham^ Ala, 

Pulaski^ Tenn. 

Montgomery, Ala. 

Little Ro.ck r Ark. 

Millersburg, Ky. 



Augusta, Ga. 

Memphis, Tenn. 

Philippine Islands. 

Nashville ', Tenn. 

Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 
Nashville, Tenn* 

Winchester, Tenn. 



Theodore Hampton Brewer, '96, 
Morris William Bush, '99, 

Ben Childers, ; '95, 

Henry Files Crenshaw, '96, 

Jean Courtney, '96, , 

Henry Jackson Daily, '99, 
' M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1900). 

Clement Evans £)unbar, '96, 

Mabelle Flippin, '96, 

Herbert Gannaway, '01, 

John Wesley Hanner, '96, 
c* M«D. (Vanderbilt, 1901). 

Charles Edward Hawkins, '97, 

William James^ Howard, '99, 
M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1900). 

William Hamilton Johnson, '96, 

Anna Gertrude Jones, '95 (Mrs. Harry Smith), 

Philippine Islands. 

Minnie E. Keiser, '96 (Mrs. Nathan Powell), 

San Antonio, Tex. 

Morgan C. Ketchum, '95, Memphis, Tenn. 

Marion Palmer Kirkland, '98 (Mrs- Morgan Ketchum), 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1399). Memphis, Tenn. 

Henry J. Livingston, '95, Memphis, Tenn. 

William Bethel Long, '99, Tallahassee, JFla. 

Lee J. Loventhal, '96, Nashville, Tenn. 

Robert Leathan Lund, '95, Nashville, Tenn. 

i C.E. (Vanderbilt, 1896) ; M.S. (Vanderbilt, 1897) ; Instructor 

in Drawing and Surveying, Vanderbilt University (1897 ). 

William Kennon Matthews, '95, Stanton Depot, Tenn. 

Thomas Motlow, '01, 
George Jefferson Nunn, '98, 

M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1899). 

William Morrison Patterson, '99, 

Edwin Moore Rankin, 96, 
M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1897). 



Lynchburg, Tenn. 
Fort Worth, Tex. 

Phoenix, Arizona. 
Cambridge, Mass. 



Phi Beta Kafpa, 

Cummins Ratcliffe, '96, 
LL.B. (Harvard, 1900). 

Elmer Riggs Smith, '96, 
M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1897). 

WilliAm David Strayhorn, '97, 

John Bell Tansil, 'oo, 

Oscar Teague, '98, 

M.S. (Vanderbilt, 1899). 

Shepherd Halsey Werlein, '97, 
M.A. (Vanderbilt, 1898). 

Charles P. Williams, '95, 

John Milford Williams, '98, 

John Gilmer Winston, 'oi, 



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Denver, Cola. 

Cyruston, Penn, 

Mount Pleasant, Tenn, 

Pullahoma, Penn, 

Leipzig, Germany, 

Sewanee, Penn, 

St, Louisa Mo, 

Strongs, Miss. 

Memphis, Penn, 



1901. 

Amelia McTyeire Baskervill, *02, Nashville, Penn, 

Timothy Cloran, Nashville, Penn, 

$ B K (Western Reserve) ; Ph.D. (Strasburg, 1899) ; In- 
structor in Latin and Greek, Geneva Normal School (1891-. 
93) ; Professor of French, German, and Greek, Shurtleff 
College ; Professor of Modern Languages, State University 
of Ohio (1899-1900); Adjunct Professor of Romanic Lan- 
guages, Vanderbilt University (1900- — ). 

Leonidas Chalmers Glenn, Nashville, Penn, 

* B K (Johns Hopkins); Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins, 1899); 
Fellow in Geology at Johns Hopkins (1899); Associate Pro- 
fessor of Biology and Geology, South Carolina College 
(1899- 1 900); Adjunct Professor of Geology, Vanderbilt 
University (1900 ). 

Robert Kennon Hargrove, Nashville, Penn. 

& B K (University of Alabama); D.D. (Emory College); 
Professor of Mathematics, University of Alabama r 1853-57) ; 
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, since 
1882 ; President of the Board of Trustees, Vanderbilt Uni- 
versity since 1889. 



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Eugene Russell Hendrix, Kansas City, Mo. 

$ B K (Wesleyan University, Connecticut) ; D.D. (Emory 
College, 1878) ; LL.D. (University of Missouri and Univer- 
sity of North Carolina, 1888^ Washington and Lee Uni- 
versity, 1892) ; Bishop of the Methodist Church, South, 
since 1886. Member of the Board of Trustees, Vanderbilt 
University. 

Daisy May Hemphill, '02, Nashville, Tenn. 

Elliot W. Kirk, Nashville, Tenn. 
$BK (Wabash) ; Assistant in Biology, Vanderbilt Univer- 
sity (1901 ). 

John Thomas McGill, '79, Nashville, Tenn. 
Ph.D. (Vanderbilt University, 1881) ; Fellow in Chemistry, 
Vanderbilt University (1879-81); Assistant Instructor in 
Chemistry, Vanderbilt University (1881-86); Adjunct Pro- 
fessor of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University (1886— 1900) ; 
Professor of Organic and Physical Chemistry, and Dean of 
Department of Pharmacy, Vanderbilt University (1900 ). 

Martha Murfree Maney, '02, Nashville, Tenn. 

Gilbert Campbell Scoggin, '02, Caruthersville, Mo. 

William James Vaughn, Nashville, Tenn. 
& B K (University of Alabama); LL.D. (University of 
Mississippi, 1883) ; Tutor in Mathematics, University of 
Alabama (1857-60); Tutor in Latin and Greek, University 
of Alabama (1860-63); Professor of Mathematics, Univer- 
sity of Alabama (1863-65, 1878-82); Professor of Mathe- 
matics, Vanderbilt University (1882 ). 



INDEX. 



[The date refers to the year of admission into the Vanderbilt Chapter. Members of the 
former scholarship society, A ♦, are marked a.] 



Baskervill, A. McT., 'oi. 
Baskervill, C. R., a. 
Baskervill, G. B., *ftx. 
Bayliss, J. Y M a. 
Bonner, C, a. 
Bradshaw, W. F., a. 
Brewer, T. H., a. 
Bush, M. W., a. 

Childers, B., a. 
Cloran, T. 'oi. 
Courtney, J., a. 
Crenshaw, H. F., a. 

Daily, H. J., a. 
Dunbar, C. E., a. 

Flippin, M., a. 

Gannawayj H., a. 
Glenn, L. C, 'oi. 

Hanner, J. W., a. 
Hargrove, R. K., 'oi. 
Hawkins, C. E., a. 
Hemphill, D., 'oi. 
Hendrix, E. R., 'oi. 
Howard, W. J., a. 

Johnson, W. H., a. 
Jones, G., a. 

Keiser, M. E., a. 
Ketchum, M. C, a. 



Kirk, E. W., 'oi. 
Kirkland, J. H., a. 
Kirkland, M. P., a. 

Livingston, H. J., a. 
Long, W. B., a. 
Loventhal, L. J., a. 
Lund, R. L., a. 

Maney, M. M., 'oi. 
Matthews, W. K., a. 
McGill,J. T., 'oi. 
Motlow, T., a. 

Nunn, G. J., a. 

Patterson, W. M., a. 

Rankin, E. M., a. 
Ratcliffe, C, a. 

Scoggin, G. C, 'oi. 
Smith, E. R., a. 
Strayhorn, W. D., a. 

Tansil, J. B., a. 

Teague, O., a. 

Tolman, H. C, Charter Member. 

Vance, H. A., Charter Member. 
Vaughn, W. J., 'oi. 

Werlein, S. H., a. 
Williams, C. P., a. 
Williams, J. M., a. 
Winston, J. G., a. 

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